On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Calvin Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 09:15 -0400, Lemire, Sebastien wrote: > >> Was wondering what you guys thought of adding the following Release >> Group types to MB: >> - B-Sides Album > > These seem to be no different from any other compilation of previously > released songs; I don't really think that it's worth having a special > release type for.
Agreed. >> - Cover Album > > At this point, covers are identified through relationships. Individual > cover recordings are done through the 'cover' attribute on the > performance AR, and I believe we still have a RG-RG relationship to mark > a particular release as a cover of another release. Agreed too, I'd just use "album" for this. >> - Mini album > > This one might have some merit, as I see it quite a bit. For the time > being, I (and most others I know) have been assuming these are basically > the same as an EP, and marking them as such. Instead of adding a new > release type, might it make more sense to rename "EP" to "EP / Mini > Album", perhaps? This looks similar to the "Maxi-single" issue - something kinda in between our current types that we don't really know what to do with. I am not sure whether the right answer is to add new types, or to have "EP / Mini Album" and "Single / Maxi-single" (or whether maxi-single should be also EP) > -- > Calvin Walton <[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
